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עָלָה

a.lahto ascend: riseHow to read Hebrew
hebrewOld TestamentVerb889 occurrences36 books817 verses

Definition

a primitive root; to ascend, intransitively (be high) or actively (mount); used in a great variety of senses, primary and secondary, literal and figurative
Traditional renderings: arise (up), (cause to) ascend up, at once, break (the day) (up), bring (up), (cause to) burn, carry up, cast up, shew, climb (up), (cause to, make to) come (up), cut off, dawn, depart, exalt, excel, fall, fetch up, get up, (make to) go (away, up); grow (over) increase, lay, leap, levy, lift (self) up, light, (make) up, × mention, mount up, offer, make to pay, perfect, prefer, put (on), raise, recover, restore, (make to) rise (up), scale, set (up), shoot forth (up), (begin to) spring (up), stir up, take away (up), work.

In the Greek Old Testament

How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders עָלָה:

Usage patterns

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Occurrences

889 total
  1. Jeremiah 14:12יַעֲל֛וּ · they may offer
    Although they may fast, I will not listen to their cry; although they may offer burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them. Instead, I will finish them off by sword and famine and plague.”
  2. Jeremiah 16:14הֶעֱלָ֛ה · brought
    Yet behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when they will no longer say, ‘As surely as the LORD lives, who brought the Israelites up out of the land of Egypt.’
  3. Jeremiah 16:15הֶעֱלָ֜ה · brought
    Instead they will say, ‘As surely as the LORD lives, who brought the Israelites up out of the land of the north and all the other lands to which He had banished them.’ For I will return them to their land that I gave to their forefathers.
  4. Jeremiah 19:5עָלְתָ֖ה · did it [even] enter
    They have built high places to Baal on which to burn their children in the fire as offerings to Baal—something I never commanded or mentioned, nor did it even enter My mind.
  5. Jeremiah 21:2וְיַעֲלֶ֖ה · so that [Nebuchadnezzar] will withdraw
    “Please inquire of the LORD on our behalf, since Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon is waging war against us. Perhaps the LORD will perform for us something like all His past wonders, so that Nebuchadnezzar will withdraw from us.”
  6. Jeremiah 22:20עֲלִ֤י · Go up
    Go up to Lebanon and cry out; raise your voice in Bashan; cry out from Abarim, for all your lovers have been crushed.
  7. Jeremiah 23:7הֶעֱלָ֛ה · brought
    So behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when they will no longer say, ‘As surely as the LORD lives, who brought the Israelites up out of the land of Egypt.’
  8. Jeremiah 23:8הֶעֱלָה֩ · brought
    Instead they will say, ‘As surely as the LORD lives, who brought and led the descendants of the house of Israel up out of the land of the north and all the other lands to which He had banished them.’ Then they will dwell once more in their own land.”
  9. Jeremiah 26:10וַיַּעֲל֥וּ · they went up
    When the officials of Judah heard these things, they went up from the king’s palace to the house of the LORD and sat there at the entrance of the New Gate.
  10. Jeremiah 27:22וְהַֽעֲלִיתִים֙ · Then I will bring them back
    ‘They will be carried to Babylon and will remain there until the day I attend to them again,’ declares the LORD. ‘Then I will bring them back and restore them to this place.’”
  11. Jeremiah 30:17אַעֲלֶ֨ה · I will restore
    But I will restore your health and heal your wounds, declares the LORD, because they call you an outcast, Zion, for whom no one cares.”
  12. Jeremiah 31:6וְנַעֲלֶ֣ה · let us go up
    For there will be a day when watchmen will call out on the hills of Ephraim, ‘Arise, let us go up to Zion, to the LORD our God!’”
  13. Jeremiah 32:35עָֽלְתָה֙ · entered
    They have built the high places of Baal in the Valley of Ben-hinnom to make their sons and daughters pass through the fire to Molech—something I never commanded them, nor had it ever entered My mind, that they should commit such an abomination and cause Judah to sin.
  14. Jeremiah 33:6מַעֲלֶה־ · I will bring
    Nevertheless, I will bring to it health and healing, and I will heal its people and reveal to them the abundance of peace and truth.
  15. Jeremiah 33:18מַעֲלֶ֨ה · to offer
    …nor will the priests who are Levites ever fail to have a man before Me to offer burnt offerings, to burn grain offerings, and to present sacrifices.”
  16. Jeremiah 34:21הָעֹלִ֖ים · that had withdrawn
    And I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah and his officials into the hands of their enemies who seek their lives, to the army of the king of Babylon that had withdrawn from you.
  17. Jeremiah 35:11בַּעֲל֨וֹת · marched
    So when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched into the land, we said: ‘Come, let us go into Jerusalem to escape the armies of the Chaldeans and the Arameans.’ So we have remained in Jerusalem.”
  18. Jeremiah 37:5וַיֵּ֣עָל֔וּ · they withdrew
    Pharaoh’s army had left Egypt, and when the Chaldeans who were besieging Jerusalem heard the report, they withdrew from Jerusalem.
  19. Jeremiah 37:11בְּהֵֽעָלוֹת֙ · withdrew
    When the Chaldean army withdrew from Jerusalem for fear of Pharaoh’s army,
  20. Jeremiah 38:10וְֽהַעֲלִ֜יתָ · and pull
    So the king commanded Ebed-melech the Cushite, “Take thirty men from here with you and pull Jeremiah the prophet out of the cistern before he dies.”
  21. Jeremiah 38:13וַיַּעֲל֥וּ · and lifted
    …and they pulled him up with the ropes and lifted him out of the cistern. And Jeremiah remained in the courtyard of the guard.
  22. Jeremiah 39:5וַֽ֠יַּעֲלֻהוּ · and brought him up
    But the army of the Chaldeans pursued them and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho. They seized him and brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he pronounced judgment on him.
  23. Jeremiah 44:21וַֽתַּעֲלֶ֖ה · and bring
    “As for the incense you burned in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem—you, your fathers, your kings, your officials, and the people of the land—did the LORD not remember and bring this to mind?
  24. Jeremiah 46:4וַֽעֲלוּ֙ · mount
    Harness the horses; mount the steeds; take your positions with helmets on! Polish your spears; put on armor!
  25. Jeremiah 46:7יַֽעֲלֶ֑ה · rising
    Who is this, rising like the Nile, like rivers whose waters churn?
  26. Jeremiah 46:8יַֽעֲלֶ֔ה · rises; אַֽעֲלֶה֙ · I will rise
    Egypt rises like the Nile, and its waters churn like rivers, boasting, ‘I will rise and cover the earth; I will destroy the cities and their people.’
  27. Jeremiah 46:9עֲל֤וּ · Advance
    Advance, O horses! Race furiously, O chariots! Let the warriors come forth—Cush and Put carrying their shields, men of Lydia drawing the bow.
  28. Jeremiah 46:11עֲלִ֤י · Go up
    Go up to Gilead for balm, O Virgin Daughter of Egypt! In vain you try many remedies, but for you there is no healing.
  29. Jeremiah 47:2עֹלִ֤ים · are rising
    This is what the LORD says: “See how the waters are rising from the north and becoming an overflowing torrent. They will overflow the land and its fullness, the cities and their inhabitants. The people will cry out, and all who dwell in the land will wail
  30. Jeremiah 48:5יַֽעֲלֶה־ · as they go
    For on the ascent to Luhith they weep bitterly as they go, and on the descent to Horonaim cries of distress resound over the destruction:
  31. Jeremiah 48:15עָלָ֔ה · have been invaded
    Moab has been destroyed and its towns have been invaded; the best of its young men have gone down in the slaughter, declares the King, whose name is the LORD of Hosts.
  32. Jeremiah 48:18עָ֣לָה · has come
    Come down from your glory; sit on parched ground, O daughter dwelling in Dibon, for the destroyer of Moab has come against you; he has destroyed your fortresses.
  33. Jeremiah 48:35מַעֲלֶ֣ה · to those who make offerings
    In Moab, declares the LORD, I will bring an end to those who make offerings on the high places and burn incense to their gods.
  34. Jeremiah 48:44וְהָֽעֹלֶה֙ · and whoever climbs
    “Whoever flees the panic will fall into the pit, and whoever climbs from the pit will be caught in the snare. For I will bring upon Moab the year of their punishment,” declares the LORD.
  35. Jeremiah 49:19יַעֲלֶ֨ה · one will come up
    Behold, one will come up like a lion from the thickets of the Jordan to the watered pasture. For in an instant I will chase Edom from her land. Who is the chosen one I will appoint for this? For who is like Me, and who can challenge Me? What shepherd can stand against Me?”
  36. Jeremiah 49:22יַעֲלֶ֣ה · will soar
    Look! An eagle will soar and swoop down, spreading its wings over Bozrah. In that day the hearts of Edom’s mighty men will be like the heart of a woman in labor.
  37. Jeremiah 49:28עֲל֣וּ · advance
    Concerning Kedar and the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon defeated, this is what the LORD says: “Rise up, advance against Kedar, and destroy the people of the east!
  38. Jeremiah 49:31עֲל֗וּ · advance
    Rise up, advance against a nation at ease, one that dwells securely,” declares the LORD. “They have no gates or bars; they live alone.
  39. Jeremiah 50:3עָלָה֩ · will come
    For a nation from the north will come against her; it will make her land a desolation. No one will live in it; both man and beast will flee.”
  40. Jeremiah 50:9וּמַעֲלֶ֨ה · and bring
    For behold, I stir up and bring against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the land of the north. They will line up against her; from the north she will be captured. Their arrows will be like skilled warriors who do not return empty-handed.
  41. Jeremiah 50:21עֲלֵ֣ה · Go up
    Go up against the land of Merathaim, and against the residents of Pekod. Kill them and devote them to destruction. Do all that I have commanded you,” declares the LORD.
  42. Jeremiah 50:44יַעֲלֶ֨ה · one will come up
    Behold, one will come up like a lion from the thickets of the Jordan to the watered pasture. For in an instant I will chase Babylon from her land. Who is the chosen one I will appoint for this? For who is like Me, and who can challenge Me? What shepherd can stand against Me?”
  43. Jeremiah 51:3יִתְעַ֖ל · [or]
    Do not let the archer bend his bow or put on his armor. Do not spare her young men; devote all her army to destruction!
  44. Jeremiah 51:16וַיַּ֥עַל · to rise
    When He thunders, the waters in the heavens roar; He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He generates the lightning with the rain and brings forth the wind from His storehouses.
  45. Jeremiah 51:27הַֽעֲלוּ־ · bring up
    “Raise a banner in the land! Blow the ram’s horn among the nations! Prepare the nations against her. Summon the kingdoms against her—Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz. Appoint a captain against her; bring up horses like swarming locusts.
  46. Jeremiah 51:42עָלָ֥ה · has come up
    The sea has come up over Babylon; she is covered in turbulent waves.
  47. Jeremiah 51:50תַּעֲלֶ֥ה · come
    You who have escaped the sword, depart and do not linger! Remember the LORD from far away, and let Jerusalem come to mind.”
  48. Jeremiah 51:53תַעֲלֶ֤ה · ascends
    Even if Babylon ascends to the heavens and fortifies her lofty stronghold, the destroyers I send will come against her,” declares the LORD.
  49. Jeremiah 52:9וַיַּעֲל֨וּ · and brought him up
    The Chaldeans seized the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he pronounced judgment on Zedekiah.